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Sunday, January 27, 2013

ALEC’s Fingerprints Are All Over the Electoral College Rigging Efforts in Blue States

One of the benefits of living in a democracy is knowing, with
relative certainty, that the people choose a representative to lead the
country through the electoral process, and although not every voter is
pleased with the results of an election, they can rest easy the leader
was chosen by the people and not appointed by special interests. The repugicans hate democracy and fair elections, and to ensure future
presidents are chosen by wingnut fascist committee, they have been
on a two-and-a-half year crusade to rig the electoral process to
guarantee a repugican will win the White House with fewer votes than
their opponent. In the last election, although Democrats garnered 1.4
million more votes than repugicans, redistricting and gerrymandering enabled
the repugican cabal to hang on to the House of Representatives. The repugicans are
notorious for using revolting tactics to win elections, and the current
coup d’état by electoral college rigging is a travesty, but like every
dirty trick repugicans use to steal elections, the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) is behind Electoral College rigging efforts in repugican-controlled states that overwhelmingly voted for President
Obama.
The current repugican assault on the democratic process began during the 2010 midterm elections when dark money groups
helped repugicans pick up 675 legislative seats and gain complete
control of 12 state legislatures, and the result was the repugican cabal redrawing
lines for four times as many congressional districts as Democrats. In
early 2010, Karl Rove laid out the repugican approach to redistricting
in a Wall Street Journal article titled, “He who controls redistricting
can control Congress” and his words were prophetic as repugicans held
the House of Representatives despite earning 1.4 million fewer votes
than Democrats. Once repugicans controlled state legislatures, they
had free rein to begin redistricting to tilt elections in repugicans’
favor, and it was ALEC that provided repugican governors and state
legislators with the redistricting tactic to rig Electoral College votes and guarantee a repugican will always be president.
The corporate-controlled ALEC was instrumental in pushing redistricting
tactics spearheaded by a former national repugican Party lawyer, Mark
Brayden, who gave a presentation on redistricting to members of ALEC’s
Public Safety and Elections Task Force in December 2010. Wisconsin
Senate majority leader, Scott Fitzgerald, a member of that Task Force
and former ALEC state chair, received an email invitation
in January 2011 for an ALEC “special” conference call with other
Wisconsin repugicans to discuss the legality of redistricting;
Fitzgerald led the redistricting effort in Wisconsin, and no Democrats
were invited to the secret ALEC conference call. Despite being sharply
criticized by a court for developing redistricting maps in Wisconsin
under a “veil of secrecy,” the new maps have taken effect and the
majority of Congressional districts are now out-of-step with statewide
voting patterns.
With new redistricting in place, repugicans plan to allocate
electoral votes so that the lion’s share of the state’s electors would
go, one by one, to the presidential candidate who won each individual
congressional district, but only in blue states. For example, in
Michigan where President Obama won by nearly 10 points in 2012, Willard
Romney would have received 9 of the state’s 16 electoral votes because
he received more votes than the President in nine of the state’s
congressional districts. It is precisely how repugicans in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Wisconsin plan on handing a repugican the White House if the despicable electoral rigging is
allowed to reach fruition.
ALEC has been directing repugican-controlled state legislatures in
various schemes to sway elections in favor of ALEC’s candidates since
the 2010 midterm elections, and repugican national ccabal chairman,
Reince Priebus, made it clear he wants repugicans to use every dirty
trick and bit of power they retain to rig the electoral process as part
of a national strategy to hand repugicans victories even when they lose
elections. Last week, Priebus urged repugican governors and
legislators to rig the Electoral College by changing the rules for
distributing Electoral College votes, and that is how democracy dies at
the hands of ALEC and their repugican lackeys.
The repugicans have to cheat to seize control of the nation because in a
democratic process, their policies will never garner support from the
voters, and although the latest ploy to subvert the Electoral College is
just now gaining steam, it is part of ALEC’s long term strategy to
appoint leaders their corporate masters demand. ALEC’s redistricting
push began in late 2010 after dirty money from Karl Rove-types swept repugicans into state legislatures and governor’s mansions, and it is
from those states that elected President Obama where the repugican cabal’s coup
d’état will have its greatest effect and ensure a permanent repugican
president.
If any American thinks for a minute that there are limits to repugican fascists’ efforts to rig elections in their favor, they are
blind, because ALEC and the repugican cabal are threatening more than
Democratic Presidents, congressional seats, state legislatures and
governors; they threaten the existence of democracy itself. Americans
should be repulsed and mortified it is even possible for ALEC and repugicans to impede the will of the people in choosing their
president, but that is the price Democrats pay for sitting out the 2010
midterm elections, because now they will learn the hard way that “elections have consequences” and democracy can die.

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